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Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and Navy chief Admiral Sunil Lanba on Monday welcomed the Navy’s six-member all-woman crew who arrived here after circumnavigating the globe in over eight months on board the naval vessel INSV Tarini .
The expedition, christened ‘Navika Sagar Parikrama’, was flagged off from the INS Mandovi boat pool here on September 10 last year.
Led by Lieutenant Commander Vartika Joshi, the crew had Lt Commanders Pratibha Jamwal and Swati P, and Lieutenants Aishwarya Boddapati, S Vijaya Devi and Payal Gupta as other members. They completed the feat in the 55-foot sailing vessel, INSV Tarini, which was inducted into the Navy on February 18 last year.
It was the first-ever Indian circumnavigation of the globe by an all-woman crew, the Navy said.
The six women officers trained for the project under Captain Dilip Donde, the first Indian to solo-circumnavigate the globe from August 19, 2009 to May 19, 2010 on board the Indian-built vessel INSV Mhadei , a Navy official said.
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